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He must have wandered across 

 the peninsula of Arabia, follow- 

 ing, no doubt, the anthropoid 

 apes which preceded him along 

 the same route (Arabia then 

 being well watered and covered 

 with vegetation) into Eastern 

 Africa, and in all probability he 

 made his first permanent home 

 within the limits of the Uganda 

 Protectorate. In Arabia he either 

 mingled with the Caucasian race 

 from the north, or himself evolved 

 a nobler and handsomer type. 

 In one or other way arose the 

 Hamite,* that negroid race which 

 was the main stock of the 

 -ancient Egyptian, and is repre- 

 sented at the present day by 

 the Somali, the Gala, and some 

 of the blood of Abyssinia and 

 of Nubia, and perhaps by the 

 peoples of the Sahara Desert. 



The Negro who first reached 

 Uganda was an ugly dwarfish 

 •creature of ape-like appearance, 

 very similar, I fancy, to the 

 Pygmy-Prognathous type which 

 linger-; at the present day in 

 the forests of Western and 

 Central Africa. From some such 

 stock as this, which is the under- 

 lying stratum of all Negro races, 

 may have arisen, in Somaliland, 

 perhaps, the ancestors of the 

 Bushmen-Hottentot group, which 

 found its way down through 

 Eastern Africa to Africa south 



of the Zambezi, in the western parts of which Bushmen and Hottentots 



still linger. Then developed the high-cheek-boned, tall, thin-legged Negro 



of the Sudan, and the blubber-lipped, coarse-feat ured. black-skinned Negro 



* And from this possibly the Arab or Semitic type. 



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